No chance of a Chalmers type pickup - we're a 12 team league with 13 guys on a team, plus 1 IR spot. Rosters that big leave JJ Redick as the best player availabe on waivers. My question is, should I drop Augustin for the flavor of the week? I'm already cycling 2 other FOW guys in my lineup, but I'm starting to get to the point where I may just go with a 3rd.

Had injuries all year. Second guard spot has been killing me. That said, I am 2-1 with the 6th most pts in a 16 team league. LeBron, Nash, Wallace have been great.

Made one pretty major trade. Dealt Josh Howard, who I've had since he was a rookie, for Andris Biedrins. Needed another C. Love Biedrins, and was able to buy low on him with a nagging injury and some bad games before he got hurt. Biedrins is a young C who averaged a dbl/dbl last season ... and he has a very low salary (so did Howard). Howard just scares me. Only 53 games last year, and this injury this year has lingering trouble written all over it. I start LeBron every week, so wth Wallace/Murphy ... a 4th forward (start just 5 guys) is not a huge neccesity.

My 5 starter, 7 reserve, once/week lineup change league team is completely ravaged at this point. Not even worth going to the waiver wire. 5 guys down with injuries. Had 4 Gs that I drafted (Harris, Martin, Hamilton, Curry) and all but Curry have now been hurt most of the season; of course Curry is basically not playing. Al Jeff disappointing and hurt this week, and of course Kevin Love is out; so that's 4 out of the 5 guys I expected to start for my squad (Hamilton supposed to be a reserve).

But hey, I still have Scola healthy! So that's one of my 5 starters!

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Not sure if I want to take it at this point as I would essentially be forfeiting two weeks until K-Love comes back and I can put Jameer on the IR for a slight upgrade (mainly just threes and more consistency). But Flynn also may burn out at any time... uhg.

Guy wants to do Blake Griffin for Gerald Wallace. There is no way I am winning the league this year, but since it is a keeper league I could add Blake at $3 to Tyreke at $3 and Hibbert at $1, which would be silly heading into the draft next year and I could have a solid second half team.

Nelson just hasn't looked the same to me this year. This latest injury isn't going to help that. Ain't he out 4-6 weeks, not 2? I've got Flynn in my second league (non-dynasty) and am actually trying to sell high on him right now though. Sessions is eventually get more time, eat some time from Flynn once he hits the rookie wall in Jan/Feb.

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Swerb wrote:Nelson just hasn't looked the same to me this year. This latest injury isn't going to help that. Ain't he out 4-6 weeks, not 2? I've got Flynn in my second league (non-dynasty) and am actually trying to sell high on him right now though. Sessions is eventually get more time, eat some time from Flynn once he hits the rookie wall in Jan/Feb.

Yeah, but K-Love gets back in 2 so I can IR him.

Real torn on this Blake thing. Do I go dynasty style and just punt the year?

e0y2e3 wrote:Alright I made that trade, second trade is my big question.

Guy wants to do Blake Griffin for Gerald Wallace. There is no way I am winning the league this year, but since it is a keeper league I could add Blake at $3 to Tyreke at $3 and Hibbert at $1, which would be silly heading into the draft next year and I could have a solid second half team.

If you're ready to give up on this season, make the trade. Even if you have the 3 guys you already want to keep, it can't hurt to have a 4th so that you have a choice at the end of the season of which 3 to keep. Very likely that one of them won't look as appealing 5 months from now. If Griffin blows up, you won't regret it.

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I drafted Al Jefferson, Scola, and Pau at Center, plus I just added both Dalembert and Perkins off waivers in one day, so I can afford to move a Center. I get lowball offers for Al everyday, but this is more in line with what I'm looking for.

I drafted Al Jefferson, Scola, and Pau at Center, plus I just added both Dalembert and Perkins off waivers in one day, so I can afford to move a Center. I get lowball offers for Al everyday, but this is more in line with what I'm looking for.

Jennings, as much as I love him, is shooting 50% from 3 right now, only like 43% on long 2's and like 26% around the rim. W/ that slanted of scoring production he is bound to cool way the eff down and Paul is, well he's fucking Chris Paul. Gordan has far more value in a keeper league than non at this point but Dahntay is playing out of his head this year and not bad. Not to mention that Jennings doesn't even have a ten dime game yet. Still think my man Reke ends up ROY, FTR.

Christ, that is just a silly trade for the other guy, IMO.

FTR: I traded Love and Jameer for Ben Gordon and Lamar the other day. I effing hate Lamar, but needed a scoring punch and am still pretty deep in the front court (even w/ Hibbert losing minutes like mad because O'Brien wants to run run run). But I already miss K-Love, another one of my man crushes. May need to make another move shortly.

I'm currently 2nd on the waiver wire with an outstanding waiver claim for Perkins which will kick in tomorrow morning. Clearly I cancel that claim and put one in for Randolph, no? A week ago this was a no-brainer. Now I'm torn.

Randolph, for all of the upside is going to give you a migraine. I love Randolph, but gawd bless you if you jump into that stupidity (meaning lack of consistent position or minutes) and lord only knows what will happen when Nellie, Biedrins and Turiaf get back.

Ranolph is an incredible enigma, Perk is a steady rock. What you need is up to you though.

Perk was dropped in order to pick up AI off of waivers by the most stacked team in my league. Somehow the dumbass didnt realize it severely weakened his team by leaving him with only 1 center. He compensated by dropping Randolph for Bonner. Essentially he traded Perk and Randolph for AI and Bonner.

e0y2e3 wrote:Ranolph is an incredible enigma, Perk is a steady rock. What you need is up to you though.

You summed it up great there. That really wraps up my dilemma in one sentence.

My team is really coming together, grabbed Felton off waivers and everyone is getting healthy. Got burned hard by dealing Love a day before news he was coming back six weeks before I expected broke, but beyond that all is well.

That said, holding into Crash when Blake was supposedly coming back and I was panicking about the S-Jax trade crushing his value has single handily saved my squad.

Now I have another offer for Blake in front of me: give up CDR and Felton for Brewer, W Chandler and Blake. I give up the two better healthy players, hurt my weaker categories a bit (I crush boards every week no questions asked) and lose my IR spot again, but damn it could pay off in the long run and intermediate future. Any thoughts?

And and Cavstribeeverything, peeps in your league are absurd. You have to be playing w/ some idiots, as they have just offered you some nice nice packages.

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Morrow has stepped up big to be a nice 2nd guard to Nash for me. Waived Foye and was able to snag Mike Conley Jr (and his 7mm salary) off waivers. Lee has emerged. Guard situation has improved. Sessions still providign nothing.

Team was decimated by injuries (J. Howard, Nelson, Kirilenko, Speights) and was trying to compete with 2 guys injured nearly every week, plus had dropped Nelson and Speights. Was winning rebounds and blocks with shots at FG% and 3 pointers. Already fell behind and needed a major acquisition. Eff it, dropped some of the schmucks I was carrying, deciding I wasn't getting more than 3 or 4 points out of 9 per week doing this and reacquired my dropped players plus Kevin Martin and Blake Griffin.

I'm still winning blocks and FG% plus winning TO every week. Speights is just about back, Kirilenko and Howard are healthy, Nelson back next week, Griffin hopefully the end of the month, and Kevin Martin (the key to the strategy) in January. Looking for a strong new year to make up some ground and squeak into the playoffs.

Once Kevin Martin comes back I'll be unstoppable. The 3 areas I'm weakest in now (FT%, 3s, and points) are his strongest areas. I'm also trying like hell to move Udrih before Martin's return. I've been packaging him with Scola in potential trades, as Scola offers nothing outside the 2 most readily available categories (points and rebounds).

I have an empty spot and am deciding between Yi Jianlian, Earl Watson, and Jerryd Bayless. Bayless obviously has the most upside, but not really much opportunity. Any thoughts?

Dude needed the assists and 3s, what can I say? He wanted me to throw in Perk as well but I drive a hard bargain. He just got Tyrus Thomas back and I guess is banking on his blocks replacing Smith's.

And its really not that much of a ripoff. According to ESPN's fantasy Rater, Baron's ranked 26th on the year, J-Smoov 30th. Per www.basketballmonster.com (an excellent site which allows you to conduct a very detailed trade analysis), Baron and Smith have the EXACT same value to date. I think you're discounting Smith's 60% FT shooting at first glance.

Also ran to pick up Randy Foye the instant I heard about the suspension. Hopefully he takes Gil's spot from here on out.

None of these have been offers thrown at me. They've all been after a lot of give and take. Baron for Smith was my offer. The Wade deal was essentially my brainchild, preying on the last place team in the league. CP3 deal never got past a casual conversation.

But yes, I am in a league of idiots.

I also find it interesting that there's such a discrepancy in ratings between CBS's system and ESPN's. 6th to 30th is a gigantic difference.

Ended up working out a Josh Howard/Arenas/Richardson swap for Lou Williams/Anthony Randolph/Beasley instead of the one I posted above late last week when I saw the news of Arenas. Guy was in playoff position, now he is effed.

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Close to punting the season since even as most of my roster has gone apeshit Vince and Ben Gordon have spent Jan torpedoing me at every opportunity.

So I am looking at a couple of deals. Jennings and Horford to me for Big Al and Felton; Stucky and Perk for Big Al; Aaron Brooks and Perk for Big Al (I can sub in Rashard in either of the last two).

Jennings is locked up for $5, the other two $3. For the life of me I cannot decide who I want to grab. I am terrified of a Jennings sophmore slump, but he obviously is the highest upside. Brooks just produces and Stucky is turning into a machine.